Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies (AJIMS)

Published: 16-08-2025

Articles

  • Thin Data From Qualitative Interviews: On Probing for Quality and Relevant Knowledge

    Nomanesi Madikizela-Madiya, Zamakhosi Thina Shembe
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3120

  • The Association Between Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiopulmonary Health Around the Kriel Coal-Powered Station of Mpumalanga, South Africa

    Lucky Shezi, Francis Akpa-Inyang, Sibusiso Gabela, Julian David Pillay
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2298

  • Decolonising Academic Narratives: Integrating Cultural Sensitivity into Curriculum Design

    Bunmi Isaiah Omodan, Sindile Ngubane
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3552

  • Emotional Intelligence, Flourishing and Satisfaction with Life among Government Employees in South Africa

    Thokozile Vangile Kumalo, Yolande van Zyl, Chengedzai Mafini, Irvine Langton
    1-20
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3895

  • Investigating the Impact of Financial Resources, Academic Workload, and Data Accessibility on Scholarly Productivity: A Case Study of Accounting Lecturers in South African Universities of Technology

    Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi, Joseph Kwasi Agyemang
    1-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3785

  • Contributing Factors to Entrepreneurial Orientation for Rural Small and Medium Enterprise Survival and Growth

    Francis Yoa Gray-Deh, Lawrence Mpele Lekhanya, Anna Johanna Catharina Womack
    1-18
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2465

  • Revealing the Potency of Ancient Wisdom: Traditional AmaXhosa and AmaZulu Indigenous Practices Before Modernity

    Mlamli Diko, Babsy Berly Boniwe Xaba
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3787

  • Outlining the Media Framing of the Covid-19 Omicron Variant, and Its Consequences on Africa

    Rhoda Patrick, Samuel Okunade, Hosea Patrick
    1-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2443

  • Traditional Health Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine Within South Africa’s Legal Framework

    Nare Masola, Mpho Maotoana, Karabo Mokgalapa, Nsovo Ngobeni
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3605

  • Factors Influencing Students’ Self-Employment Intentions (SEIs): The Role of Education

    Zethembe Mseleku
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3499

  • Applying PESTEL Factors to Enhance Sustainable OHS E-Learning: A Theoretical Model for Adult and Continuing Education

    Elriza Esterhuyzen, Leonie Louw
    1-17
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3718

  • The Impact of Reading Challenges on Foundation Phase English First Additional Language Learners in O.R. Tambo Inland District: Teachers’ Perceptions

    Lundi Nomlala, Joseph Baidoo
    1-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.1330

  • COVID-19 Exacerbated Socio-Structural and Behavioural Realities of Girl-Child Development and Education in Selected Rural Eastern Cape Communities

    Ephraim Kevin Sibanyoni, Nelly Sharpley, Yolisa Majija, Nosipho Mavuso, Sibusiso Mkwananzi
    1-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3588

  • Framing Day Zero: Peace Journalism and the Cape Town Water Crisis as a Communication Model for KwaZulu-Natal

    Grace Temiloluwa Agbede, Sam Erevbenagie Usadolo
    1-10
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3048

  • Assessing the Impact and Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in a University of Technology in South Africa

    Thandukwazi Richman Ncube
    1-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3585

  • Perceptions of Parents and Teachers on Violence among Learners: Impacts on Academics and Mental Health in eThekwini, South Africa

    Andile Samkele Masuku, Jamila Adam, Busisiwe Nkosi
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2882

  • Citizens' Perspectives of AI Adoption in Taxation and Its Effects on Long-Term Voluntary Tax Compliance and Socio-Cultural Norms in Botswana

    Edmore Munjeyi, Danie Schutte
    1-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3608

  • Migration, Displacement and Belonging: A History of the Tembo Mvura People, Northern Zimbabwe

    Neil Maheve
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3532

  • Brand Marketing Communication Strategies for Public Universities: The Case of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

    Samkele Konyana, Siyabonga Mxunyelwa
    1-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2463

  • Evaluation of Digital Literacy Skills Among First-Year Students in theDepartment of Business and Information Management Services at TshwaneUniversity of Technology, South Africa

    Abdul Feroz Maluleke, Godfrey Maake, Peter Mphekgwana
    1-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3606

  • Intersecting Barriers to Girl-Child Education in Northern Nigeria: A Critical and Feminist Assessment of Sustainable Development Goal 4

    George Mbara, Suzanne Graham
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2258

  • Empowered, Unapologetic and Unstoppable: A Black or African-American Feminist Critique of Beyoncé’s Formation and Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda

    Mlamli Diko
    1-16
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3604

  • Evidentiality in Opinion Articles on South African’s Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice: A Metadiscourse Approach

    Grace Temiloluwa Agbede
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3052

  • Promotion of Ethical Leadership Behaviour Practices in Public Secondary Schools: A South African Perspective

    Mathew Kimanzi, Peter Rakgalakane
    1-14
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3587

  • Investigating the Efficacy of the New Bachelor of Engineering Technology Degree in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Durban University of Technology

    Mark Walker, Bruce Graham, Mark Gilpin, Shoreek Sheoratan
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3609

  • Lexicological Disjunction in Israel’s Gaza War Rhetoric and the Western Complicity

    Lucas Mafu
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3570

  • Impact of Climate Change on Health: Bridging Science, Adaptation, and Communication

    Idowu David Ibrahim, Abimbola Olorunsogo Aniki, Nkosilathi Zinti Nkomo, Abednigo Jabu Mbatha
    1-21
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2480

  • The Age of Financialisation: Bitcoin and the Prospects of a Democratised Monetary System

    Obadiah Moyo, Malcom Chiororo, Oluwatobi Joseph Alabi
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3607

  • Understanding the Digital Transformation of the South African Music Industry: A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Sakhiseni Joseph Yende, Lindokuhle Precious Hlatshwayo, Thandiswa Koliti
    1-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3510

  • Construction Project Budget Overruns: Attributes of Stakeholders to Scope Changes in South Africa

    Moses Nyathi, Cecile Gerwel Proches, Simon Micheal Taylor
    1-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3518

Special Issue 1

  • Editorial: Humour in South African Literatures and Cultures from Apartheid to the Present

    Rodwell Makombe, Irikidzayi Manase, Silvia Anastasijevic
    1-9
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3667

  • Magical Laughter: Humour and Play as Subtexts in Angela Makholwa's The Blessed Girl (2017)

    Isaac Ndlovu
    1-10
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3709

  • Not so funny: Humour, Gender and Queer Sexualities in Niq Mhlongo’s “The Stalker” and “Woman to Woman”

    Zandile Matlolane , Nonki Motahane
    1-10
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2948

  • Satirical Chroniclers of Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa

    Rosaline Govender, Simone Govender
    1-10
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2952

  • Visual Political Humour as Political Dissent: South African Online Posters Under Government of National Unity

    Mopailo Thatelo
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2953

  • Laughing with a “Forked Tongue”: Subversive Humour in Sindiwe Magona’s Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night

    Nomonde Ntsepo, Kimméra Pillay
    1-8
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2950

  • Exploring the Role of Humour in Self-Help South African Digital Content: A Critical Analysis of the Babu Dokotela TV Show on YouTube

    Nkosinathi Leonard Selekane
    1-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2951

Special Issue 2

  • Editorial: Education and Advances in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    Kehdinga Fomunyam
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.3668

  • Critical Skills Requirement of Quantity Surveying Graduates for Fourth Industrial Revolution Readiness

    Nathaniel Olatunde, Iruka Chijindu Anuwgo, Imoleayo Abraham Awodele, Molusiwa Stephan Ramabodu
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2798

  • Rethinking Education for a More Inclusive and Future-Ready AI Era

    Kayode Oyetade, Tranos Zuva
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2707

  • Integrating 4IR Technologies into Quantity Surveying Education in Nigeria: A Strategy for Improving Employability Outcomes

    Bamidele Arijeloye, Molusiwa Stephan Ramabodu
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2775

  • Wired for Success: Curriculum-Driven Digital Literacy for First-Year Students in Open Distance Education

    Rudzani Lumadi
    1-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.51415/ajims.v7i2.2927